Archive for September, 2007

 "Oh, and your ex stopped by..." From Tom Cheney, in the New Yorker. »

I went to the wedding of a childhood friend the other day, and in reminiscing about the old days, it struck us how different things were back then. For example: 1) When I was six or seven years old, I would walk to school every day with Alice, a neighbor girl who was only a... »

Background: The "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami is a battle over a 4-year-old Cuban immigrant girl which pits her Cuban father, Rafael Izquierdo, against wealthy Cuban-American foster parents Joe Cubas, a well-known sports agent, and his wife Maria. Just as Elian's father Juan Gonzalez faced numerous unfair hurdles to get his son back,... »

A Welsh woman has died in a Thai hospital from injuries sustained in the September 16 crash of One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 at Phuket International Airport, bringing the death toll to 90. Bethan Jones, 22, from Porth, had been one of 42 original survivors in the crash, which her boyfriend, Alex Collins, 22, did not... »

Evan Wolfson, the founder of the modern gay marriage movement, tells the waiter he would like an iced decaf and “the usual.” Wolfson, one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World, is a man who unflinchingly knows what he wants and stays his course, whether it be in his choice of restaurant... »

Thomas Friedman thinks you are “stupid” if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks “9/11 is over” and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly... »

Background: Some, including former Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy, have criticized the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (IMBRA) for being anti-male. According to McElroy, "the IMBRA requires American men who wish to correspond with foreign women through private for-profit matchmaking agencies to first provide those businesses with their police records and other... »

This past week the government rammed through long awaited legislation that will require companies to sell 51 per cent of their equity to black Zimbabweans nominated by the regime. The companies are required to fund this exercise themselves through a levy that is to be introduced by the State and which will be applied... »

Background: Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman last month after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes. She is currently in a custody battle with Matthew Winkler's parents, who... »

Dear Family and Friends, Standing outside over yet another smoky fire late one afternoon this week, a Go-Away bird chastised me from a nearby tree. I’m sure this Grey Lourie is as fed up of me intruding into its territory as I am of being there – trying to get a hot meal for supper. For five... »

All good things come to an end, and some bad ones, or at least go into hibernation for a bit. Fred on Everything is going to take a month off and ponder, and perhaps come back refreshed. Or perhaps... »

When there's domestic violence and it's committed by a woman, it's not domestic violence. Here a woman allegedly hit her husband with her car, drove a 1/2 mile with him on the roof, fractured his leg, and drove off--and she says she's the victim. She is being charged with some appropriate crimes--at least until... »

September 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) — Family values dominate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new government. The prime minister is the defense minister’s father-in-law. The energy minister is the health minister’s husband. The justice minister’s son is married to the deputy Kremlin chief of staff’s daughter. Shortly after Putin nominated Viktor Zubkov as prime minister, Defense Minister Anatoly... »

By Ron Synovitz Iraq — Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraqi US General David H. Petraeus at his first press conference in Baghdad, 08Mar2007 U.S. General David Petraeus, in Baghdad last March (epa) September 28, 2007 (RFE/RL) — The U.S. military is launching an intensified effort to stop what it says is Iranian support for insurgents in... »

by Jim Kouri, CPP Diversity visas provide an immigration opportunity to aliens from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Diversity visa applicants must apply online, be selected by lottery, be interviewed, and be determined to be eligible before obtaining a diversity visa. At the requested of the US Congress, the Government... »

A comment on MDN got me thinking. The comment read, “First, we are now in a time when the two most important questions are the war being waged against us by the Islamic terrorists and tacitly supported by much of Islam and also the question of immigration. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important... »

This gettin' up early, pulling double shifts / Gonna make an old man of me long before I ever get rich / But I'm tryin' / It's been two years since we've finalized / I still ain't used to puttin' ex in front of wife / But I'm tryin' / Send more money right... »

The long awaited finale in the “Halo” series, “Halo 3″, has beaten the previous record of opening day sales held by “Spiderman 3″ of US$151 million. In the United States, “Halo 3″ got $170 million worth of retail sales in the opening day alone. The game by Bungie Studios is available in 37 countries, which... »

The long awaited finale in the “Halo” series, “Halo 3″, has beaten the previous record of opening day sales held by “Spiderman 3″ of US$151 million. In the United States, “Halo 3″ got $170 million worth of retail sales in the opening day alone. The game by Bungie Studios is available in 37 countries, which... »

The Anglican Church in Australia has cleared the way for women to become diocesan bishops. In a majority decision the Anglican Church’s highest legal authority, the Appellate Tribunal, found that there was nothing in the Church Constitution to prevent a female priest from being consecrated as a Bishop. The decision means there could be... »